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Some veteran Jackson Mississippi Samson guys' musings, recommended resources, and Samson Society news / updates (all written by 100% Grade A - Human Intelligence)
Weekly meetings available to you are as follows:
Tuesday at 6:30 PM, Truitt Baptist Church - Pearl. Call Matt Flint at (601) 260-8518 or email him at matthewflint.makes@gmail.com.
Wednesday at 6:00 PM, First Baptist Church Jackson - Summit Counseling Suite - 431 North State St. Jackson. Call Don Waller at 601-946-1290 or email him at don@wallerbros.com.
Monday at 6:30 PM , Vertical Church - 521 Gluckstadt Road Madison, MS 39110. Mr. Roane Hunter, facilitator, LifeWorks Counseling.
Sunday night at 6:00 PM, Grace Crossing Baptist Church - 598 Yandell Rd. Canton. Call Joe McCalman at 769-567-6195 or email him at cookandnoonie@gmail.com.
Thursday, August 14, 2025
Decent Jocks Choose Not To Invest In (Nor Advertise Towards) A Harem Of Whores
Living Out A Marriage Built On Lies / Deceit (HIGH RISK!)
I've been swimming moreso this summer than I've ever swam. This being the result of my gosh awful foot sprain (no more running!). Ouch. We're members of the Y, both of which have pools (two indoor / one outdoor).
One recent weekend, I couldn't help but notice a fellow sun worshipper / swimmer (young husband / father) stolen away from his lovely fam. As was usually the case on a Saturday, the pool was hopping with rednecks. This young white guy was lounging on the pool deck close enough to Rob for me to hear him covertly dialoguing with someone over his pocket computer. His verbiage was low and muffled, but distinct enough for me to know for certain that he was talking on his phone (sans holding the device up to his head).
Sunday, March 30, 2025
Divorce Prejudice
Earlier this week, I had lunch with an old friend. I'd bumped into him the week prior and upon taking his card, promised to follow up. This man is +/-12 years my senior, white, upper class (for MS), working in a tangential industry to architecture (my first career). He was instrumental in supporting me therein (while I was working in the private sector) for a number of years.
Around 16-17 years ago, this man surprisingly divorced his wife, and though it didn't hit me as hard as it would have otherwise (if we'd been closer friends), it still hit hard. For I knew his wife indirectly (I'd perhaps met her twice), and I knew he had two beautiful children.
Why?
Monday, April 15, 2024
The Night He Got Jumped By His Former Youth Pastor / It Took Two To Tango / Was This An Isolated Incident? - Stories That Resonate
It is not getting any easier admitting to my neediness. Over the past quarter (& then some), my wife has been working 12-hour days (home office), and because she's a night owl, most of her workday has been well past 5 PM. As such, a typical evening (throughout the workday and weekend) consisted of tiptoeing in order to not disturb her grind. And it was my privilege to step up in this regard.
Since she became physically disabled due to her May 2020 stroke, a lot of additional housework naturally fell on my shoulders. Thanks be to God we live in a manageably scaled home (with a small yard)! Too, only having one additional kidlet (of three total) at home (who's the epitome of obedience and cooperation) to feed / tend to, helps tremendously.
Thursday, November 23, 2023
What Is The Greatest Gift You've Given Your Wife?
Thursday, September 28, 2023
Rob's Sobering Drive Home
I'm fortunate to live within a metro that simply doesn't have a snarled traffic expectation attached to it. Hence, unless its holiday season (Xmas), I'm not at all constrained to come and go from home undeterred as I please. As a result, Jackson, Mississippi and its surrounding suburbs feel more like a big-small town than a thriving urban metropolis. As such, vehicular transportation flows relatively freely, and much of this can be attributed to the fact that a large majority of the city's (Jackson) impoverished (black populace) simply do not own cars.
Wednesday, September 20, 2023
It's Endearing Providing Matrimonial Security (After All These 27 Years) Whilst Horizontal
I mentioned (within a previous post) our recent sleep divorce. This was something facilitated by our middle daughter (also) leaving for college this fall. In anticipation of this, over the course of this past summer, the "big girls" room was transformed - via new twin beds / mattresses - from child's room to extra bedroom.
Throughout, my wife was (somewhat privately) repositioning all of this on her own behalf. Particularly when it came to the mattress purchases (they were quite luxuriously expensive).
My wife's "stroke arm" (her left arm) is often (most comfortable) extended perpendicular to her body whilst she snoozes. Hence, our queen bed doesn't necessitate this well, particularly with her 200lb husband (me) adjacent.
Hence, about a month ago (in tandem with daughter #2 leaving for college), the sleep divorce was finalized. It took me absolutely no time to adjust accordingly, though there were a few nights of eeriness as I began to imagine that Angie had stroked out for a second time and had died.
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Earlier this week, Angie announced that the sleep divorce was over. She was ready to sleep re-marry.
Why?
At first, she was sharing the room with our youngest daughter (8th grader) who was sleeping within the adjacent twin bed. But that didn't last (her snoring quickly shut this Jill & Jill setup down).
It was the aloneness that got to her. Being there within that tiny bedroom by herself.
I'm wondering, though I haven't mentioned it, if it harkened back to her weeklong May 2020 hospital stay post-stroke. Being ushered in and out of ICU a handful of times throughout that week, and being there alone (I was only allowed to visit for one hour midday, each day, due to pandemic restrictions), made a distinct impression.
So now she's back in bed with her husband. And, according to her, she's sleeping soundly.
It feels nice to provide that security to her via exceedingly close proximity.
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My oldest friend's (college) somewhat recently widowed mom began sleeping with a call-in radio broadcast playing from the adjacent pillow. She did this to honor her deceased husband's presence enough to replicate that deeply longed for feeling of husband security (her husband died in his early 90s).
Now she's found herself alone in the single-family home that they'd owned together for decades.
Women crave security. Men crave respect.
Angie feels secure. Rob feels respected. Win-win.
Friday, September 15, 2023
Two Highly Recommended Regularly Scheduled Marriage Touchpoints
Angie and I are in uncharted territory as husband / wife. Having been married 27 years, we've never experienced being (almost completely) empty nesters (2 of our 3 kidlets are out of the house). It is an especially weird place to be residing within. Our 1,550 square foot abode is so much less lively / loud. There's so much less laundry to tend to. Substantially less food to prepare. We've even noticed how much cooler the house seems to be (even considering this brutally hot August).
She and I have discussed this weirdness when it's seemed appropriate, but overall, it's actually been difficult to describe where we're at. More often than not, we just sort of stare at each other and shrug in an attempt to articulate this familial paradigm shift.
Initially, I was so pleased to experience the absence of not just one (beginning two years prior) but two kidlets. Now though, I'm enthralled at how bizarre it truly feels for both of our oldest children to be gone (college) and subsequently thriving on their own.
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Angie and I have always made praying together a priority. Though it's never been calendared, we've consistently inserted it into our schedules ad hoc. When we were early on in our marriage, we'd pray before going to sleep. Usually, we'd hold hands whilst lying there, and one of us would intercede, speaking softly into the darkness.
Now that we're sleep divorced (a practical, immensely satisfying development birthed from this almost empty-nester setup), our prayer time(s) happen in the living room.
But my point is they're still happening. Regularly.
Highly recommended. Do this with your wife / girlfriend. It's intimate and profoundly satisfying.
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A second commitment she and I have - to each other - is working out together. Now, we don't shadow each other there in the Y, but we're loving the fact that we're together (strength training separately) within the same space during that time.
This isn't something we've participated in together as a couple - consistently - for much longer than three years. Angie's post-stroke rehabilitation deeply motivated her as to the importance of strength training. That debilitating neurological event occurred in May of 2020. As such, she hasn't looked back relative to our twice weekly sessions.
Again, highly recommended. It's been tremendously helpful to our us. And especially during this bizarre time within our marriage.
Sunday, September 10, 2023
Sympathizing With That Invisible Man (Let's Not Forget That Every Guy Isn't Necessarily Destined To Become A Samson Guy)
I have become a Samson guy through and through. How do I know this?
I desire to spread the Samson Society "Good News" to most every new friend I make.
Even if they're not foreseeably "qualified" (in crisis) to be involved within this community.
And that's a problem (relative to my friendship track record) because it proves I'm not being sensitive to my friend's needs / wiring. Instead, I'm behaving more like that pyramid-scheme zealot friend who's looking to make a quick buck.
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Monday, July 31, 2023
Never Renovate / Upgrade Without The Next Homeowner In Mind
Real estate typically far outlasts homeowners. Hence, it's wise to always make upgrades to one's property with the next (& the next) homeowner in mind.
Wednesday, July 12, 2023
A Truly Loyal, Loving Samson Brother Is Adept At Holding His Nose (If Momma's Not Happy, Nobody's Happy)
This past winter, my oldest Samson friend asked Angie and I to "double-date" with he and his wife to a local 2023 summer concert. The tickets for said concert were about to be made available (February), and since we'd very much enjoyed ourselves over the course of a few evenings with these two (throughout the past 8 years), we agreed to shell out the cash for our two adjacent tickets. Keep in mind that my Samson friend as well as his wife are concert aficionados (live music lovers), and we most certainly are not. Too, this particular artist we'd absolutely no interest in hearing in concert. Nonetheless, we really liked the idea of double-dating with these beloveds, knowing that this couple, based on past experience, were reliably fun to spend time with.
The night before the concert, my Samson friend called to announce that his wife no longer had any interest in attending the concert. As a result, my Samson brother too decided to abandon us (out of "respect" for her). Earlier that week (perhaps over the weekend), this friend had shockingly confessed that he and his wife had been separated for close to a month. In spite of our time together earlier in the year, we weren't privy to their marriage woes, nor would we have ever recognized it.
Angie and I did decide to attend the concert. We saw a number of familiar faces in the (mostly) inebriated crowd. The vocalist sang about a pig, and from there, we decided to leave at intermission, having felt as if we had literally set ablaze +/-$300 (the retail price for our two tickets).
I felt duped, but too, very thankful that my Angie has never relationally humiliated me in an attempt to control / punish me.
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A wife who attempts to control her husband, primarily via criticism and posturing, combined with insisting on being his moral nanny, is one of my greatest revulsions.
But some Samson guys are literally wired for this treatment as husbands, thereby giving these ladies the utmost respect and servitude.
I have seen it time and time again.
The easiest way to spot these husbands is via their speech.
If you were to take a week's worth of their verbiage and examine its content, a decided portion (high percentage) would center around the wife. As if she's primarily what he thinks about and thereby he can't stop talking about (approval?).
At the tail end of last year (off season), our family was vacationing within the same Gulf Coast resort area as a (fairly new) Samson brother (he too was there with his fam). I excitedly recommended we merge our clans for a shared meal (restaurant / one of our condos) in hopes of having the opportunity to mingle with his fam. He relayed to me that was not an option due to the fact that his wife refused to "dirty herself & her children" with her husband's perverted Samson Society friends (me & my girls). Hence, he and I agreed to a meet up early one morning (coffee) before either of our respective vacations expired. He spent the majority of our time together talking (& weeping) incessantly about, can you guess?
His wife.
I pitied this man. For it was obvious that he was moreso in bondage to her than any sort of compulsive sexual sin. Yet, he dutifully seemed to feed off of said bondage / attention.
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During my time working as an architect (during the late '90s), I had a colleague who no doubt had codependent tendencies (I had no formal understanding of this word at the time), and it was his wife who obviously fulfilled that role. It was the creepiest marriage relationship I'd ever seen. I remember becoming nauseous (along with most everyone else) every time I'd see the two of them together (which thankfully wasn't that often).
Fast forward.
A longstanding Samson brother too fell into that same codependency camp. His marriage though was decades and decades in length, and shockingly, this couple had only engaged in intercourse three times throughout their entire betrothal (both husband and wife were perfectly healthy, middle-aged white people). It was during one of those three fucks that his wife became pregnant with their only child.
My friend would lament that his wife would privately berate him incessantly regarding how he had destroyed / was destroying their marriage due to his compulsive online porn use (among other things).
And he seemingly fed on this criticism / nagging. For he was hooked onto her criticism like a babe is latched onto his mother's teat.
Whenever I rub shoulders with this couple today, I have to resist the urge to fall to my knees in order to thank God for my Angie.
But that's just me.
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All this leads me to a young Samson friend who's agreed to his wife's demands relative to real-time slip-up ("acting out") communication / confession.
I've told him how stupid this agreement was / is, but he refuses to stop doing it. And, of course, his wife uses it to control him, knowing full well that she's receiving privileged information that's giving her the emotionally-strategic upper hand.
I could go on and on. There are Samson guys who take regularly scheduled lie-detector tests for their wives or provide their wives with pocket computer apps that allow them to read their husband's text messages - in real time.
I've seen Samson guys who share an email address with their wives, encouraging them to read them in kind.
I've even befriended a Samson guy who allowed his wife to install a camera in their bedroom in order for her to be able to spy on him - at her discretion - whilst away from the house (via her pocket computer).
Weird shit, indeed.
All of this, ultimately, puts the wife in the marriage's (emotional) driver's seat, and these husbands are absolutely thrilled to be relinquishing that responsibility.
Thanks be to God for my sweet wife, Angie, who has no interest in behaving this way within our marriage, but again, this is how I'd prefer it.
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In closing, what should you do if you befriend a married Samson brother as I've described here?
Hold your nose, and never, under any circumstance assume that he's not parroting every word / detail you speak to him back to his "mommy" (I've made this mistake!).
Friday, June 30, 2023
Help Me Lord To Not Discriminate (See Them As Less Than) Against Divorcees
I've always subconsciously deemed divorcees as second-class citizens. My first memory of making this adjudication occurred not long after I married (27 years ago). Our church (First Baptist Church Jackson) hosted a Saturday morning "men's conference" at the newly constructed Hinds Community College Eagle Ridge conference center in Raymond. I was in my mid-20s at the time.
Saturday, October 29, 2022
Wife Material
Based on my observations / experience, here're some mainstays relative to choosing a wife you'll want to stay married to "'till death do us part".